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Originally Posted by mic1184
i was just integrating the mod at its current state into SH3 cmdr, and realized the following problem:
only 'sets' of files can be randomized, so i must put fixed combinations of intro.tga, map.tga, museum.tga and singlemissions.tga into the randomized ##-folders. this would mean that with one specific Intro-screen there would always be the same mission loading screen. this really isnt a good solution.
is there any possibility of randomizing the files independently from each other? im not sure how to handle this, but im thinking about ways to enable this mod without SH3 commander, maybe with a .bat file, like i've seen sometime here in the forum...
any ideas?
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I did some maths to see how many sets you'd have to make depending on how random it should be:
1) If you wanted to make it totally random, you'd have to make many
sets of screens. If you had only 125 different screens to choose from and want to have 4 of them (the intro, map, museum and mission) chosen randomly so that all the four are different, there will be 9 691 375 different combinations and therefor as many different sets. Thats only with 125 screens to choose from, the calculation tool I'm using does not allow too big numbers :p. A total randomization would be obviously impossible to make.
2) So, you must alter the nuber of the screens (the 250 you're planning to make) or the set and level of randomizing (all the 4 different screens in a set to be random). If for example only 1, the intro screen, would change while the remaining 3 would be always the same and there would be 125 screens to choose from, there would be obviously a total of 125 different sets.
3) Make the mission screen randomize too (you'll have 2 screens to choose from 125) and it jumps to 7 750 different combinations aka sets.
4) If you wanted all the 4 to be random and had just 10 different screens to choose from, there would be 260 different sets.
Read about
'combination without repetition'. Also play around with
this. Change the n to be the total number of screens to choose from and the k to be how many to choose.
Tomorrow I might present ideas on the topics and such.